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Ancestor Worship and the Elite in Late Iron Age Scandinavia
A Grave Matter
Inbunden, 2020
2588 kr
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Ancestor worship is often assumed by contemporary European audiences to be an outdated and primitive tradition with little relevance to our societies, past and present. This book questions that assumption and seeks to determine whether ancestor ideology was an integral part of religion in Viking …
Sense of Smell in the Middle Ages
A Source of Certainty
Inbunden, 2019
2588 kr
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Odors, including those of incense, spices, cooking, and refuse, were both ubiquitous and meaningful in central and late medieval Western Europe. The significance of the sense of smell is evident in scholastic Latin texts, most of which are untranslated and unedited by modern scholars. Between the …
Charisma of Distant Places
Travel and Religion in the Early Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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This cultural history of early medieval travel and religion reveals how movement affected society, demonstrating the connectedness of people and regions between 500 and 850 CE. In The Charisma of Distant Places, Courtney Luckhardt enriches our understanding of migration through her examination of …
Myths and Realities of the Viking Berserkr
Inbunden, 2021
2890 kr
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The viking berserkr is an iconic warrior normally associated with violent fits of temper and the notorious berserksgangr or berserker frenzy. This book challenges the orthodox view that these men went ‘berserk’ in the modern English sense of the word. It examines all the evidence for medieval …
Travel, Pilgrimage and Social Interaction from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Av Jenni Kuuliala, Jussi Rantala
Inbunden, 2019
2588 kr
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Mobility and travel have always been key characteristics of human societies, having various cultural, social and religious aims and purposes. Travels shaped religions and societies and were a way for people to understand themselves, this world and the transcendent. This book analyses travelling in …
Peacemaking and the Restraint of Violence in High Medieval Europe
Av Simon Lebouteiller, Louisa Taylor
Inbunden, 2023
2588 kr
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The High Middle Ages have been seen as an important point within the development of governmental and administrative bureaucracy, as well as a time in which there was frequent conflict. This volume addresses the methods by which violence was regulated and mitigated, and peaceful relations were …
Margaret's Monsters
Women, Identity, and the Life of St. Margaret in Medieval England
Inbunden, 2019
2890 kr
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St. Margaret of Antioch was one of the most popular saints in medieval England and, throughout the Middle Ages, the various Lives of St. Margaret functioned as a blueprint for a virginal life and supernatural assistance to pregnant women during the dangerous process of labor. In her narrative, …
Death Penalty in Late-Medieval Catalonia
Evidence and Significations
Inbunden, 2019
2828 kr
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The death penalty was unusual in medieval Europe until the twelfth century. From that moment on, it became a key instrument of rule in European society, and we can study it in the case of Catalonia through its rich and varied unpublished documentation. The death penalty was justified by Roman Law; …
Church, Society and University
The Paris Condemnation of 1241/4
Inbunden, 2019
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In 1241/4 the theology masters at the university at Paris with their chancellor, Odo of Chateauroux, mandated by their bishop, William of Auvergne, met to condemn ten propositions against theological truth. This book represents the first comprehensive examination of what hitherto has been a largely …
Warfare and the Making of Early Medieval Italy (568–652)
Inbunden, 2020
2198 kr
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Devastated by two decades of war and ravaged by the spread of the plague, large parts of Italy fell quickly into the hands of a group known to history as the Lombards. By the early 570s the Lombards were firmly established in Italy, which they ruled without ever fully unifying it. The events of the …
English Readers of Catholic Saints
The Printing History of William Caxton’s Golden Legend
Inbunden, 2020
2890 kr
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In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints’ lives in Europe. This study analyzes the molding of the Legenda aurea into a book that powerfully attracted the English market. Modifications …
From Justinian to Branimir
The Making of the Middle Ages in Dalmatia
Inbunden, 2020
2198 kr
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From Justinian to Branimir explores the social and political transformation of Dalmatia between c.500 and c.900 AD. The collapse of Dalmatia in the early seventh century is traditionally ascribed to the Slav migrations. However, more recent scholarship has started to challenge this theory, looking …
Food Consumption in Medieval Iberia
A Socio-economic Analysis, 13th-15th Centuries
Av Juan Vicente García Marsilla
Inbunden, 2022
2828 kr
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From the banquets of kings and nobles to the daily struggle for the subsistence of the poor, food was already much more than a biological necessity in the Middle Ages: it was a social phenomenon full of meaning. In this book all the implications and meanings that food had on the Iberian Peninsula …
Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy
Perceptions, Encounters, and Clashes
Inbunden, 2019
2198 kr
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In the early Middle Ages, Italy became the target of Muslim expansionist campaigns. The Muslims conquered Sicily, ruling there for more than two centuries, and conducted many raids against the Italian Peninsula. During this period, however, Christians and Muslims were not always at war – trade …
Heresy and Citizenship
Persecution of Heresy in Late Medieval German Cities
Inbunden, 2020
2746 kr
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Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities. By focusing on the unprecedented period of persecution between 1390 and 1404, this study demonstrates how heretical presence in cities was exploited in …
Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality
Av Ann Zimo, Tiffany Vann Sprecher m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2588 kr
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Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of people to have been marginalized in the European Middle Ages: the poor, criminals, unorthodox religious, the disabled, the mentally ill, women, so-called …
Authorship, Worldview, and Identity in Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2022
2828 kr
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What did medieval authors know about their world? Were they parochial and focused on just their monastery, town, or kingdom? Or were they aware of the broader medieval Europe that modern historians write about? This collection brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described …
Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile
Breaking with the Past
Av Cecil Reid
Inbunden, 2021
1245 kr
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Jews and Converts in Late Medieval Castile examines the ways in which Jewish-Christian relations evolved in Castile, taking account of social, cultural, and religious factors that affected the two communities throughout the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.The territorial expansion of the …
Triumph of an Accursed Lineage
Kingship in Castile from Alfonso X to Alfonso XI (1252-1350)
Inbunden, 2020
2828 kr
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The Triumph of an Accursed Lineage analyses kingship in Castile between 1252 and 1350, with a particular focus on the pivotal reign of Alfonso XI (r. 1312–1350).This century witnessed significant changes in the ways in which the Castilian monarchy constructed and represented its power in this …
Triumph of an Accursed Lineage
Kingship in Castile from Alfonso X to Alfonso XI (1252-1350)
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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The Triumph of an Accursed Lineage analyses kingship in Castile between 1252 and 1350, with a particular focus on the pivotal reign of Alfonso XI (r. 1312–1350).This century witnessed significant changes in the ways in which the Castilian monarchy constructed and represented its power in this …
Early Medieval Venice
Cultural Memory and History
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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Early Medieval Venice examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. From the periphery of the Byzantine Empire, Venice acquired complete independence and emerged as the major power in the Adriatic area. It also avoided absorption by …
Heresy and Citizenship
Persecution of Heresy in Late Medieval German Cities
Häftad, 2022
706 kr
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Heresy and Citizenship examines the anti-heretical campaigns in late-medieval Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Strasbourg, and other cities. By focusing on the unprecedented period of persecution between 1390 and 1404, this study demonstrates how heretical presence in cities was exploited in …
Fragmented Nature: Medieval Latinate Reasoning on the Natural World and Its Order
Av Mattia Cipriani, Nicola Polloni
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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The Latin Middle Ages were characterised by a vast array of different representations of nature. These conceptualisations of the natural world were developed according to the specific requirements of many different disciplines, with the consequent result of producing a fragmentation of images of …
Fragmented Nature: Medieval Latinate Reasoning on the Natural World and Its Order
Av Mattia Cipriani, Nicola Polloni
Häftad, 2024
688 kr
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The Latin Middle Ages were characterised by a vast array of different representations of nature. These conceptualisations of the natural world were developed according to the specific requirements of many different disciplines, with the consequent result of producing a fragmentation of images of …
Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts
Memories of the Vanquished
Inbunden, 2021
2890 kr
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Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne’s conquest of the Lombard kingdom, and the presence of the Franks in the Italian Ppeninsula. The different contexts and periods in which these writers …
Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts
Memories of the Vanquished
Häftad, 2022
812 kr
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Franks and Lombards in Italian Carolingian Texts examines how historians of Carolingian Italy portrayed the history of the Lombards, Charlemagne’s conquest of the Lombard kingdom, and the presence of the Franks in the Italian Ppeninsula. The different contexts and periods in which these writers …
Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500
Av Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, Lorenzo Caravaggi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2588 kr
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This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in …
Women and Violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500
Av Lidia L. Zanetti Domingues, Lorenzo Caravaggi m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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This pioneering work explores the theme of women and violence in the late medieval Mediterranean, bringing together medievalists of different specialties and methodologies to offer readers an updated outline of how different disciplines can contribute to the study of gender-based violence in …
From Justinian to Branimir
The Making of the Middle Ages in Dalmatia
Häftad, 2022
727 kr
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From Justinian to Branimir explores the social and political transformation of Dalmatia between c.500 and c.900 AD. The collapse of Dalmatia in the early seventh century is traditionally ascribed to the Slav migrations. However, more recent scholarship has started to challenge this theory, looking …
Fluctuating Sea
Architecture and Movement in the Medieval Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2021
2588 kr
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This volume fluctuates between conceptualizations of movement; either movements that buildings in the medieval Mediterranean facilitated, or the movements of the users and audiences of architecture.From medieval Anatolia to Southern France and the Genoese colony of Pera across Constantinople, The …
